A ROCK of white marble (?) with many rock basins on its surface lies in Looe
harbour, under Saunder's Lane, and is now -covered by every tide. This stone
once stood on the top of an elevated rock near it, and when in this position,
whenever it heard a cock crow in the neighbouring farmyard of Hay, it turned
round three times.

The topmost stone of that curious pile of rocks in the parish
of St Cleer known as the Cheesewring is gifted in like manner. Even now the
poultry-yards are very distant, but in ancient days the cocks must have crowed
most lustily, to have produced vibrations on either the sensitive rock or the
tympanum of man.